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you said it!!! a one or two percent tax doesn't add much to the price of things, but could amount to huge sums to the state budget. i would rather pay a sales tax than more on my property taxes.

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your PE "expert" was givinging you a HUGE pile of the big, brown, steamy stuff when he said the general elementary school teacher is incapable of also taking on the role of physical educator and that no successful model of this exist ANYWHERE. bullocks! i was educated in the california public school system in the '70s and '80s and that's exactly how it worked at the elementary school level. from a half an hour to one hour several times a week our regular teacher took us outside to play kickball, capture the flag, run some laps, and other fun activities. they were also the ones who trained us for the presidential physical fitness tests, which most of us earned patches for. nutrition was included in the biology/science category. back then, there were maybe only a half-dozen or so kids in the entire elementary school who were considered over-weight and i only remember one who fit the obese category. we didn't have an official, single physical exercise expert until the junior high school level. and we did just fine!

oregon, it's time to suck it up and implement a sales tax so we can provide the funding to keep ALL of the educational programs needed to turn our children into well-rounded, successful adults.

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